The Lake Shore Limited
Publishers Weekly Four people are bound together by the 9/11 death of a man in Miller's insightful latest. Leslie, older sister and stand-in mother to the late Gus, clings to the notion that Gus had found true love with his girlfriend, Billy, before he was killed. But the truth is more complicated: Billy, a playwright, […]
What We Can Know
The Man From Beijing
Library Journal: A 2006 massacre in Sweden reverberates back to 19th-century China and America in this stand-alone by the author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. When 19 of the 22 residents of a Swedish hamlet are brutally murdered, Judge Brigitta Roslin discovers that the victims include her late mother's foster parents, so she looks into […]
Bone Fire
Library Journal Spragg's latest novel (after An Unfinished Life) is a gleaming tale about a ranch family in Ishawooa, WY. Not one word is out of place, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable. Though ostensibly about a local murder?a teenager is found dead in a meth lab?the book is told […]
The Note
Scat
The New York Times – David Pogue Not many authors are equally successful at writing books for adults and children, but Carl Hiaasen seems to have made an effortless transition?His latest, Scat, won't disappoint Hiaasenphiles of any age?the ingenious plotting makes Scat more engrossing than either of its predecessors. The characters are richer?two of them […]
Built to Move
The Sisters of Sinai : How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Library Journal: This book actually tells not one but several stories: the grueling feat of undertaking Victorian-era Middle Eastern travel, especially for well-born ladies; the theological and cultural misgivings between Scots Presbyterian sensibilities and Greek Orthodox monasticism; the serendipity, misogyny, and double dealings that lie behind some of the greatest biblical manuscript finds of the […]
Noah's Compass : a Novel
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: ?a small story that provides an interesting variation on those dismal tales of aging by [Philip] Roth & Co?"Just trying to stay afloat"?neither sinking into Roth's existential despair nor ascending into Oprah's blinding self-delight?that's the difficult, totally unhip theme that Tyler takes clear to the end of this understated […]
The National Parks : America's Best Idea : an Illustrated History
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by New England Wire Technologies? Sales Group in memory of June T. O?Brien. Publishers Weekly: Starred Review: Duncan and Burns, who last teamed on Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, rejoin in this visually stunning guide to the unforgettable landscapes and fascinating history of America's national parks. A companion […]